[Nut-upsuser] driver error

[Steve Boyle]

Cool, thanks for the tip.  Most appreciated.

Regards,
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clepple at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 5:07 PM
To: Steve Boyle
Cc: nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] driver error

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Steve Boyle <steve.boyle at connexity.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> Actually, I just got it working.  I found this thread:
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> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.nut.user/6546
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> I downloaded the 2.6.1 source and found the entry I needed to add to 
> 52-nut-usbups.rules.  I also had to add productid = 0003 to the 
> ups.conf file. Seems to be working now.

Adding "productid = 0003" is equivalent to the "-x" option mentioned.

> Are there new features for this the APC SmartUPS G5 that I would 
> benefit from by upgrading to 2.6.x?

Not so much a feature as preventing problems down the road, you may want to add the pollonly flag per this discussion from an APC
employee:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsdev/2010-June/004847.html

(I didn't check that before; for some reason I thought pollonly wasn't available in 2.4.3 yet)

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- Charles Lepple